Chapter 2. Togetherness or othering?
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Charlotte Taylor
Abstract
This chapter addresses the theme of othering by reporting on preliminary work from a European project aimed at building a dictionary of migration discourse keywords. The chapter investigates the use of the terms COMMUNITY and comunità in two British and Italian newspapers (Guardian, Times, Repubblica, Corriere della Sera) using corpus-assisted discourse analysis. In the first stage, it shows how these terms are interpreted as keywords of migration discourse. In the second, it examines the evaluative weighting of these lexical items. Contrary to previous work (e.g. Williams, 1983; Gallissot, 2007), it is shown here that the terms COMMUNITY and comunità are actually used as part of a pattern of othering, when employed in the context of migration discourse.
Abstract
This chapter addresses the theme of othering by reporting on preliminary work from a European project aimed at building a dictionary of migration discourse keywords. The chapter investigates the use of the terms COMMUNITY and comunità in two British and Italian newspapers (Guardian, Times, Repubblica, Corriere della Sera) using corpus-assisted discourse analysis. In the first stage, it shows how these terms are interpreted as keywords of migration discourse. In the second, it examines the evaluative weighting of these lexical items. Contrary to previous work (e.g. Williams, 1983; Gallissot, 2007), it is shown here that the terms COMMUNITY and comunità are actually used as part of a pattern of othering, when employed in the context of migration discourse.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Media representations of the “other” Europeans 1
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Part I. Othering as political and media practice
- Chapter 1. Orbán’s Hungary 25
- Chapter 2. Togetherness or othering? 55
- Chapter 3. The European “stranger” in Le Monde ’s headline discourse 81
- Chapter 4. Profiling of new Europeans in the British conservative press 103
- Chapter 5. Construing the Other 121
- Chapter 6. Discursive legitimation of criminalization and victimization of sub-Saharan immigrants in Spanish El País and ABC newspapers 135
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Part II. Othering as interpersonal and interactional practice
- Chapter 7. Negotiating an identity 157
- Chapter 8. Representations of Eastern Europeans in the UK in reader comments of two British online newspapers 183
- Chapter 9. Othering others 207
- Chapter 10. The othering of Roma migrants in British and Czech online news discussion forums 235
- Chapter 11. The Roma as ultimate European minority and ultimate outsider? 259
- Chapter 12. Othering in Estonian online discussions about refugees 281
- Contributors 305
- Index 309
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Media representations of the “other” Europeans 1
-
Part I. Othering as political and media practice
- Chapter 1. Orbán’s Hungary 25
- Chapter 2. Togetherness or othering? 55
- Chapter 3. The European “stranger” in Le Monde ’s headline discourse 81
- Chapter 4. Profiling of new Europeans in the British conservative press 103
- Chapter 5. Construing the Other 121
- Chapter 6. Discursive legitimation of criminalization and victimization of sub-Saharan immigrants in Spanish El País and ABC newspapers 135
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Part II. Othering as interpersonal and interactional practice
- Chapter 7. Negotiating an identity 157
- Chapter 8. Representations of Eastern Europeans in the UK in reader comments of two British online newspapers 183
- Chapter 9. Othering others 207
- Chapter 10. The othering of Roma migrants in British and Czech online news discussion forums 235
- Chapter 11. The Roma as ultimate European minority and ultimate outsider? 259
- Chapter 12. Othering in Estonian online discussions about refugees 281
- Contributors 305
- Index 309
